OWASP New York City

OWASP New York City Chapter Meetups and Events

Upcoming Events

• OWASP NYC Chapter IAM Summit 2026 Event
• “The Science of Silence: Beyond the Detection Trap” by Christopher Frenz

Past Events

• “OWASP NYC Chapter is going to the largest Tech Expo in Brooklyn”

• Join the OWASP NYC Chapter for the 17th NY Cybersecurity Summit Invitation

• OWASP NYC Hackfest w/ a Secure Code Showdown

• OWASP AI Podcast - Happy Hour - Insecure Agents: LIVE Panel & Podcast

• “From Zero Trust to Two Scoops” with Carlos Menas

• “Mastering Reachability Analysis” with Francesco Cipollone

• OWASP Vulnerability Management Guide inaugural working group meeting, by Elizabeth Frenz, Theresa Mammarella @t_mammarella and Zoe Braiterman @zbraiterman

• “Software Bill of Materials” by Curtis Yanko

• “MITRE Assistant” by Carlos Diaz

• “OWASP Amass” by Jeff Foley @jeff_foley

• “Keep your code safe during the development path using Opensource tools.” by Filipe Pires @FilipiPires

• “Using OWASP Nettacker For Recon and Vulnerability Scanning” by Sam Stepanyan @securestep9

• “‘Security Through Clarity’ and Why Programming Languages and Architecture Matter” by Francois-Rene Rideau @ngnghm @phanaero

• “Do certain types of developers or teams write more secure code?” by Anita D’Amico @AnitaDamico

• “Is blockchain really secure??” by Shrutirupa Banergiee @freak_crypt

• Threat Modeling by Izar Tarandach @izar_t and Matthew Coles @coles_matthewj

• Running an AppSec Program with Open Source by Spyros Gasteratos @0xfde

• Building an AppSec Program with Open Source by Vandana Verma @InfosecVandana

• Supply Chain / Vendor Management by Li-Ann Wong

• “Tesseract Incursion: Breaking and Securing the Kube”, by Abhay Bhargav @abhaybhargav

• NYC Chapter at OWASP Chapters All Day - Speakers: Christopher Frenz - OWASP Medical Device Deployment Standard, OWASP Anti-Ransomware Guide, AEHIS Incident Response Committee Chair & Elizabeth Frenz - OWASP Vulnerability Management Guide

• OWASP NYC / Women in AppSec Secure Coding Tournament

• All Day DevOps View Party - Conference view party time slot includes DevSecOps speakers, including Wendy Nather (@wendynather) and Caroline Wong (@CarolineWMWong)

• NYC Cyber Social Q4 Event

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Zoe Braiterman

Zoe Braiterman is an information security consultant, open source security leader, and cybersecurity advocate specializing in application security, artificial intelligence, and secure distributed systems. She hosts the weekly PurePoint International Consciously Secure Leadership Series and advises emerging cybersecurity companies on security strategy, governance, and enterprise adoption.

Her work focuses on advancing secure software and digital infrastructure through application security, AI governance, vulnerability management, and secure blockchain technologies. She is passionate about helping organizations build resilient systems that enable innovation without compromising trust.

Zoe serves as a New York Chapter Leader for OWASP and is the Project Leader for the OWASP Blockchain AppSec Standard and the OWASP Vulnerability Management Guide. She is also a co-author of the Threat Modeling Manifesto and has contributed to open source security standards, technical guidance, and community initiatives spanning application security, artificial intelligence, blockchain security, high-performance computing, and medical device cybersecurity.

A Women Economic Forum honoree and frequent international conference speaker, Zoe is dedicated to advancing cybersecurity through open source collaboration, technical excellence, mentorship, and inclusive leadership.

Carlos Mena

Carlos Mena is a technology leader with more than 30 years of experience across enterprise software, cybersecurity, identity, cloud, and application infrastructure. He currently works with Curity, where he focuses on modern identity, API security, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and secure access patterns for applications, APIs, and emerging AI-driven systems.

As Event Coordinator for the OWASP NYC Chapter, Carlos helps organize programming that brings together security practitioners, engineers, architects, and technology leaders across the New York community. He is passionate about making application security education more accessible, practical, and connected to the real-world challenges teams face when securing modern software.